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For the week of 7/12/16, Overwatch’s weekly brawl is called “Mobawatch”, a game mode designed to be like modern-day MOBA titles. Each team is fully comprised of unique heroes, and once you have locked in your character, you cannot switch heroes for the entire match. This brawl tries to amplify the MOBA aspect of Overwatch, and successfully...

It’s difficult to find a naval warfare game these days that doesn’t mainly appeal to ship enthusiasts. Complex strategy titles like Wargame, Steel Ocean, and Atlantic Fleet immediately come to mind when thinking about the genre. Rarely are players offered a less “hardcore” adventure in which to sail the seven seas in heated conflict. Well,...

WHO DO YOU CHOOSE?! Team Instinct, Team Valor, or Team Mystic?? Well, you can’t choose until Level 5 so I don’t know why I’m asking you. Anyway, Team Rocket all the way. (There isn’t actually a Team Rocket in the game, but don’t even stop to believe for a second that I wouldn’t join them...

Since many Pokemon Go players live in areas without any in-game Gyms or Pokestops nearby, game creator Niantic Inc. is opening up submissions for these critical locations. The last time this occurred was during the early stages of Ingress, Niantic’s first augmented reality game that transferred many of its flagged locations over to Pokemon Go....

The Second World War has always been a popular topic for video games. I would be willing to bet that most gamers, at some point, have played a WWII inspired game. For most people, that probably involved running around in the first person, shooting enemy soldiers with an M1 Garand. I am no exception, but for...

The Overwatch Weekly Brawl for this week of 7/5/16 is titled “Show Your Support”, a game mode all about support heroes. The idea is very similar to “Overly Defensive”, except that the heroes of choice are strictly support heroes Symmetra, Lucio, Mercy, and Zenyatta. To add to the “fun”, a single team may only have...

Walking into Cally’s Trials, I had few expectations. It looked like a typical platformer, with a standard 8-bit art style, and decent platforming. I figured the game would be either really easy or extremely difficult, and something would quickly steer it away from being fun. Well boy, was I wrong. Cally’s Trials is practically flawless, and...

Blades of the Righteous is a turn-based RPG developed by Vladimir Slav of Coldwild Games. The goal of the game is to keep your small map from being overrun by evil forces while you manage resources such as Lumber, Gold, and Recruits. The game is somewhat like a roguelike. Your adventure continues until the evil...

Pokemon Trainers around the world can finally rejoice at the release of Pokemon GO for Android and iOS devices. It’s been a long wait for Nintendo’s Pocket Monsters to reach our phones and tablets in glorious augmented reality. Although GO is being developed by Niantic Inc., it still contains all the Pokemon we know and...

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